After filling out the crosswords, there are pairs of antonyms that don’t fit the clues as written.
| B | E | I | N | G | S | V | A | L | I | D | A | T | E | |
| A | T | H | E | N | A | A | N | I | M | A | T | E | D | |
| A | T | O | N | A | L | R | O | M | A | N | L | A | W | |
| S | U | P | E | R | V | I | S | I | O | N | A | M | I | |
| L | E | N | I | N | I | S | O | N | ||||||
| E | N | D | S | A | T | T | H | A | T | |||||
| L | O | U | T | A | N | Y | E | X | H | A | L | E | ||
| A | V | E | R | A | G | E | C | L | E | A | N | E | D | |
| M | A | L | I | C | E | O | L | D | C | O | O | N | ||
| C | E | S | S | N | A | A | N | N | A | |||||
| S | T | E | T | C | U | S | P | S | ||||||
| C | H | I | S | U | S | P | E | N | D | I | N | G | ||
| R | E | D | M | A | P | L | E | C | A | U | D | A | L | |
| A | R | E | A | M | A | P | S | O | C | T | O | P | I | |
| P | E | R | V | E | R | T | S | K | Y | L | A | B |
| T | A | R | I | F | F | P | E | N | A | L | I | Z | E | |
| E | M | I | N | O | R | A | G | I | T | A | T | O | R | |
| R | E | T | I | R | E | S | O | N | A | T | I | N | A | |
| I | N | A | T | T | E | N | T | I | O | N | N | E | S | |
| S | H | O | E | S | B | A | S | E | ||||||
| D | R | N | O | F | I | T | F | U | L | |||||
| E | E | O | C | D | U | N | W | A | I | V | E | S | ||
| P | A | R | A | G | O | N | D | I | R | T | I | E | D | |
| P | R | I | S | M | S | N | E | W | H | E | R | A | ||
| I | C | E | C | A | P | E | W | O | K | |||||
| O | S | L | O | O | R | O | N | O | ||||||
| S | H | O | C | O | N | T | I | N | U | I | N | G | ||
| K | A | W | A | S | A | K | I | C | A | N | C | E | L | |
| A | V | E | M | A | R | I | A | K | I | D | O | R | Y | |
| R | E | S | T | O | R | E | I | R | O | N | O | N |
Each pair of antonyms has a corresponding contranym. Furthermore, there are two words actually clued by their corresponding clues.
| Antonym 1 | Antonym 2 | Contranym | Clued word 1 | Clued word 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PERVERT | RESTORE | DOCTOR | CORD | LADY |
| AVERAGE | PARAGON | STANDARD | STRAND | GUESS |
| SUSPENDING | CONTINUING | STAYING | GNATS | RAIL |
| CLEANED | DIRTIED | DUSTED | DUDE | WALL |
| VALIDATE | PENALIZE | SANCTION | ANTICS | COLUMN |
| OLD | NEW | ORIGINAL | LORIAN | SENSE |
| SUPERVISION | INATTENTION | OVERSIGHT | OVIGERS | HEAVEN |
One is a transdeletion (2) of the contranym, so we can get a bigram that was removed from each contranym (in ORIGINAL there is the ambiguity as both IG and GI are present in the contranym, but should be easily disambiguated when placed next to other bigrams in the next step).
The other can be paired with an ordinal word to form a common phrase (e.g. LADY -> FIRST LADY). Order by the ordinal word (1st - 7th) and take the removed bigrams to get the final answer TODAY IS TONIGHT.